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Matilde Fratteggiani Bianchi
Soprano Matilde Fratteggiani Bianchi was born in 1993 in Perugia, Italy, into a family of musicians. She learned to play the piano as a child and is a native speaker of both Italian and German. After studying art history, she switched to singing and studied in Berlin, first with Dorothe Ingenfeld and then with Prof. Ursula Hesse von den Steinen. She also attended master classes with Sara Mingardo, Veronica Cangemi, Gemma Bertagnolli and Doerthe Maria Sandmann at the Institute for Early Music.
Matilde was a scholarship holder of the Accademia Vivaldi in Venice several times and gained concert experience at the Teatro Ducale Sabbioneta, Palazzo Giustinian Venezia, among others. She made her debut in Berlin as an oratorio soloist in the Berliner Dom under the direction of cathedral cantor Adrian Büttemeier.
Her love of baroque music and historical performance practice has taken her to masterclasses and festivals in Italy, Germany and Switzerland. She is also regularly involved with new music, modern classics and contemporary premieres. Motivated by her enthusiasm for interdisciplinary work in various artistic genres, she has also performed at literature festivals, art galleries, theater performances and video art projects. She has been a soprano in the OrgaVoce trio since spring 2025.
Helen Ispirian
The mezzo-soprano Helen Ispirian with Armenian-Upper Franconian roots initially studied singing, dance and acting at the University of Music & Performing Arts in Vienna as well as classical singing and music education at the Berlin University of the Arts with KS Prof. Ute Florey (née Döring). She previously had lessons with Reiner Goldberg (Berlin State Opera) and took part in master classes with Peter Svensson (Vienna). She is currently completing postgraduate studies in baroque singing with Doerthe Maria Sandmann (Institute for Early Music at the Berlin University of the Arts).
Although Helen came into contact with classical music as a child through violin, piano and ballet lessons and also received her first singing lessons from a classical singer, the versatile artist gained very different artistic experiences before discovering her love of baroque music: She spent several months as a guest artist at the Deutsches Theater Almaty in Kazakhstan, where she worked mainly in a musical adaptation of "Mother Courage and Her Children" by B.Brecht; she created the title role in the Russian premiere of Georg Kreisler's “Heute Abend: Lola Blau! “ at the Meyerhold Center in Moscow and founded the band GASTARBAiTERKA, which mixed German chanson with balalaika and accordion sounds and gave concerts in Moscow - e.g. on “Europe Day” on the Red Square - as well as several times in the Urals and Siberia at the invitation of the German Embassy and the Goethe Institute.
Helen Ispirian has worked throughout Germany as a duo with pianists, guitarists and accordionists in the field of chanson and song as well as in experimental projects, including with the Sonar Quartett Berlin with members of Ensemble Mosaik. In 2021, she performed at the official celebrations of the diaspora Armenians on the Day of Remembrance of the Genocide Victims. She has also directed two short films. The musical film “Erhöre uns süße Freiheit!”, realized with OrgaVoce, was awarded at international festivals and published by the Goethe Institute after successful participation in the competition.
Helen has received artist grants from the German Music Council, the Musikfonds and the GVL (Gesellschaft zur Verwertung von Leistungsschutzrechten).
Helen is now mainly active as a soloist in the field of baroque music. With a Jewish Vocal Quartett she performed music by Bach in Hebrew as well as contemporary Jewish music at several Festivals as well as Villa Seligman in Hannover. She is also regularly engaged as an alto by various professional choirs for specific projects. She was selected as a regular member of the Bamberg Symphonic Choir, which performs chamber music choral concerts with early and new music as well as large choral symphonic projects with the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra and other renowned orchestras.
As a choral soloist, she has performed with the Ernst Senff Choir & German Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Roland Böer at the Konzerthaus Berlin. Helen has also had guest engagements in the opera choirs at the Anhaltisches Theater in Dessau, the Staatstheater Darmstadt, the Landestheater Coburg, the Gerhardt-Hauptmann-Theater Görlitz and the Nordharzer Städtebundtheater and will make a guest appearance in the opera choir at the Munich State Opera in summer 2025.
Helen has worked with renowned conductors such as Daniel Barenboim, Roland Böer, Justin Doyle, Florian Helgath, Elisa Gogou, Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla, Oscar Jockel, Kiril Karabitz, Maike Bühle, Fabian Enders, Marcus Merkel, Michael Sanderling, Nathalie Stutzmann, Juraj Valčuha, Jörg Peter Weigle and others.
Concert venues have included the Berlin Philharmonie, the Konzerthaus and the Waldbühne, Berlin Cathedral, the Globe Theater in Coburg, the Bamberg Symphony Concert Hall, the Bad Kissingen Summer Festival, St. Thomas Church in Leipzig, the Meistersingerhalle in Nuremberg and the Weimar Art Festival.
Helen is largely responsible for the artistic program design and profile development at OrgaVoce.
Karolina Juodelyte
Karolina Juodelytė, born in Vilnius in 1990, “is one of the leading concert organists, who possesses a mature artistic style with technical brilliance” (Axel Engels in “Westfälische Nachrichten”, 2019).
Karolina Juodelyte is in demand as a soloist and chamber music performer at national and international festivals in Germany, Finland, Lithuania, Austria, Poland, Russia, Italy, Croatia and the Czech Republic and has given masterclasses with renowned organists (G. Bovet, D. Roth, J. Tuma, H. Lucke, T. Jellema, D. Tagliente, S. Cherepanov, H. O. Ericsson, A. Frey, H. Vogel, L. van Doesselar and others).
She has performed with orchestras such as the Dresdner Philharmonie, Konzerthausorchester Berlin, ORSO-Philharmoniker, Bielefelder Philharmoniker, Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie, Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra, Orchestergesellschaft Detmold, Magdeburger Philharmoniker, Kammerorchester Berliner Cappella, Kammersymphonie Berlin and Concertino Berlin.
Her CD (Odradek Records, 2018) with the recording of the Concerto for organ, violin and chamber orchestra by Lithuanian composer Julius Juzeliūnas together with the leading Lithuanian violinist Džeraldas Bidva, conductor Adrija Čepaitė and the Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra was shortlisted for the 2019 Grammy Awards.
In 2020 she recorded a CD “The Road to Silence” with contemporary Lithuanian organ music (MAMA Studios). She has recorded further CDs with the Lithuanian String Quartet (Lithuanian National Philharmonic Society, 2013) and the opera singer Nora Petročenko (“MAMA Studios”, 2016).
She had her first encounter with music at the age of six when she entered the Ciurlionis Art School in Vilnius. Her first instrument was the piano. At the age of 12, she learned to play the organ with Vida Prekeryte. She initially studied organ (Prof. Gediminas Kviklys and Prof. Virginija Survilaitė) and musicology at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre and, as part of various exchange programs, at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna (Prof. Roman Summereder) and at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki (Prof. Kari Jussila). She completed her master's degree and concert exam at the Detmold University of Music under Prof. Martin Sander. She also obtained a Bachelor's degree in Church Music there. In 2021, she completed her master's degree in church music at the Berlin University of the Arts.
Karolina Juodelyte won the International Ciurlionis Competition in Vilnius in 2011 and received six special prizes (best performance of works by M. K. Ciurlionis, best performance of the Fugue in B flat minor by M. K. Ciurlionis, most creative interpretation of contemporary music, most artistic performance, youngest finalist, opportunity to perform in the Lithuanian National Philharmonic Orchestra). In 2012 she won third prize at the International L. Janacek Competition in Brno (Czech Republic). In 2014 she won a prize at the interpretation competition of the Alumni Association and the AStA of the Detmold University of Music. In the same year, she received a special prize for the best second round at the International Petr Eben Competition in Opava, Czech Republic. In 2015, she won 2nd place and a special prize for the best interpretation of a work by J. P. Sweelinck at the 9th International J. P. Sweelinck Organ Competition in Gdansk (Poland). In 2017, she was awarded 3rd place at the 1st International Organ Competition in Bialystok (Poland) and was a semi-finalist at the 8th International Organ Competition in Musashino-Tokyo (Japan). In 2019 she was a prizewinner at the 2nd International Organ Competition in Shanghai (China). In 2020 she was awarded 3rd place at the 8th International Franz Schmidt Organ Competition in Vienna (Austria).
Since 2017, she has played all world premieres of organ pieces by Lithuanian composers at the International Musicology Conference in Lithuania.
From 2018 to 2022 Karolina taught at the Vilnius University of Music and Drama.
In 2019, she participated in a music video by director Darius Abaris, which was shown with live music by the Lithuanian Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Robertas Šervenikas during the event at the Lithuanian Opera Theater on the occasion of Lithuanian Independence Day. In the same year, she performed at the Lithuanian Philharmonic Orchestra together with the Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra conducted by Sergey Krylov. In 2012 and 2013, she was thanked by the President of Lithuania, Dalia Grybauskaite, and the Chairwoman of the Lithuanian Seimas, Irena Degutiene. She has received scholarships from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), the Society of Friends and Sponsors of the Detmold University of Music and the A. Toepfer Foundation (Concerto Music Scholarship).